Iteration planning

This book is about a marriage of two compatible yet unlikely partners.
Extreme Programming (XP) is a software development methodology that
enables users, business people, programmers, and computers to communicate
effectively. Perl is a dynamic programming language that lets an XP
team embrace the inevitable change caused by effective communication. Perl
the fixer and doer of the pair, and XP is the organizer and facilitator. Together
they help you build robust software applications efficiently.
Like any good marriage, the partners of Extreme Perl support each other....

The best project managers aren’t just organizers – they combine business vision, communication skills, soft
management skills and technical savvy with the ability to plan, coordinate, and execute. In essence, they
are not just managers – they are leaders. While this has always been the case, agile project management
places a higher premium on the leadership skills than ever before.
For example, XP teams create and monitor their own iteration plans in collaboration with the customers. The
customer creates stories (features) and prioritizes them based on business value.

As the project unfolds, the manager can track tasks that are on schedule,
those that are lagging and those that are critical. At the end of the project, the
manager can go back over the project plan to see what was close to the mark
and what needs improvement in the future.
This is but a fraction of what Project Management Software can do for
complex management assignments. While many, if not most PR practitioners
do not use such software today, it may make sense to look into it and to see if
your organization can...

The Director of Acquisition Education, Training and Career Development within the Office of the Deputy Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition Reform, in collaboration with the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Civilian Personnel Policy, asked the RAND Corporation to assist the Office of the Secretary of Defense (OSD) and several of the defense components in formulating the first iteration of these plans and then evaluating the components’ plans.

You have already learned that there are three phases of design ó conceptual,
logical, and physical ó in the MicrosoftÆ Solutions Framework (MSF) Process
Model. The first phase of the MSF Process Model is conceptual design.
Conceptual design starts during the Envisioning Phase of the MSF Process
Model, and continues through most of the Planning Phase. Since the MSF
Design Process is an evolutionary, as well as iterative, process, conceptual
design clearly sets the tone for both logical and physical design.

Planning and Developing the Core Framework foreach( $bits as $tag = $template ) { $templateContent = file_get_contents( $template ); $newContent = str_replace( '{' . $tag . '}', $templateContent, $this-page-getContent() ); $this-page-setContent( $newContent ); } }
Data that we wish to have placed into our templates works in a similar way to template bits, except that we can simply replace the tag with the data passed, as opposed to the contents of another file. There are two exceptions, which require a little more work from us, both of which involve iterating through data.

While these methodologies may have worked for some organizations in the past and may still work in some
circumstances, for many companies these methodologies only added cost and complexity while providing a
false sense of security that management was “doing something” by exhaustively planning, measuring, and
controlling. Huge costs were sunk in premature planning, without the rapid iterative development and
continuous feedback from customers that we have come to realize are prerequisites for success today.

Agile marketing is about taking small steps, minimizing risk, and failing fast—all in an effort to figure out what works as efficiently as possible. As a methodology, it focuses on an iterative approach to planning and executing, learning quickly, and having a bias towards action. Agile marketing means listening to what your customer wants, programming your ads to reflect relevant topics, updating, and measuring. So why does agile marketing matter in display advertising? Because display is growing and marketers can’t afford to rely on static text and image ads to meet ROI objectives. ...

Relevant ﬂoor plans can be generated before planning the layout of
furniture pieces. Recently, Merrell et al. [2010] proposed a data-
driven method to generate residential building layouts. In their
work, 120 examples of architectural programs are used to train a
Bayesian network that captures the relationships among different
rooms. Given certain user requirements as priors, the Bayesian net-
work can then be used to generate a ﬂoor plan, which is iteratively
modiﬁed to incorporate desirable human factors. The result is a
synthesized ﬂoor plan for a residential building.

Two studies of reﬂection in clinical teaching in medicine were found (Pinsky and Irby
1997; Pinsky et al. 1998). The authors surveyed 48 distinguished clinical teachers in
medicine regarding the role of reﬂecting on instructional success in their professional
development as teachers. They identiﬁed three phases of reﬂection: anticipatory reﬂection,
which used past experience for planning teaching activities; reﬂection-in-action, which
involved maintaining ﬂexibility during teaching; and, reﬂection-on-action, which involved
thoughtful analysis of the experience.